Letter from a happy customer.

Part of a letter from a satisfied customer in Maryland.

"We got the stove installed Saturday the 22nd. It’s been running great & we haven’t had to relight the stove since the first firing, even when we let it sit as just coals for up to 8hrs. We just rake it & throw more wood on. I’ve even played with some massive knotty logs & green wood (on top of the pile) & it eats it all up. Stack stays right at 200F with the draft set about 1/3 open. So far our only issue has been with how to deal with the heat it puts out. We found that for our size home we don’t have to keep it topped off at all times or load it right away when it runs out, thus the 6-8hr coal burns. When loading, it takes no time for the stack to reach 500F. In fact, with dry oak & hickory, it can reach 650+ in just a couple minutes so we really have to watch it. I’m guessing it’s good practice to get it up to 500 at every reload? Think I read that somewhere so that’s what I’ve been doing each reload. I was worried at first that our stack wouldn’t be tall enough at only 13.5ft but I don’t think it’s an issue since we don’t have any backpuffing like I’ve read about on the yahoo forum. Our home is a single story rancher & I positioned the stove so the stack exits as close to the peak as possible. At 13.5ft, it extends almost 5ft out the roof already so I really wasn’t looking forward to going any higher. Fortunately, it doesn’t seem like we’ll have to. Still don’t have the water pipe hooked up yet but will be trying out the thermo-siphon method next weekend. We also positioned the stove so the water heater is directly behind the stove on the other side of the wall, less than 3ft away. Hope the passive method works out so we don’t have to add a circulating pump. We’re glad we chose the Sedore, it’s a great stove! I’ll get you some pictures of our setup sometime this weekend."

Jim

Old Tyme Farm Days in Owego, NY

Bob is at the Old Tyme Farm Days this weekend. If you are anywhere close to Owego, NY and want to see the stove come by Sat. all day or Sun. afternoon and you can meet him and see the Sedore stove. The Farm Days are alot of fun too.

VisionStone Stoves at the Ukrainian Festival in Lehighton, PA

Cutting Wood

Since we burn mostly wood in our Sedore we need to prepare for the winter by cutting wood in the summer. We had a providential event here a few months ago. One of our large locust trees that was growing at an angle on our hill fell down without obvious intervention. I was outside and heard what sounded like gunshots on my hill. I was quite curious but saw no one and no evidence of any activity. I kept looking and the shots kept getting louder and more rapid. Suddenly as I was about to investigate the firing turned to the cracking of splitting timber. A 70 foot locust tree dropped down 20 feet above my log pile. The sounds I heard were the roots popping as they snapped intermittently beneath the ground.
I haven't been able to get to cutting up the tree until this weekend, as I do not have a good working chainsaw at the moment and needed some help. Locust is very dense/hard wood, which not all chainsaws can handle. It burns hot and long so is a desirable fuel for the colder months.
The tree is now cut into sections and will be split and loaded onto my woodpile in the next few weeks.

New Website

We are up and live with our new website. It is much more user-friendly and has access to all the pertinent information. Thanks to Jacob Lamont our web designer for doing a great job. If you are interested in contacting him about a project let us know and we will put you in touch.

New website is almost up. We are excited and looking forward to the new site. Hopefully you readers will find it more pleasing to the eye with the information better organized and more easily accessible.
Also we are now on facebook as vision stone stoves and on twitter as visionstone so if you are either of those sites feel free to stop by and check out the pages.

NY Customer- bought a Sedore stove In early January